Education has no more serious responsibility than making adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure; not only for the sake of immediate health, but still more if possible for the sake of its lasting effect upon habits of mind.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

If a newspaper, by an intelligent anticipation, announces the result of a battle before any telegram giving the result has been received, it may by good fortune announce what afterwards turns out to be the right result, and it may produce belief in some of its less experienced readers.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

It wasn't by getting astride a stick and thinking it would turn into a horse if I sat on it long enough.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

While we are from birth to death the subjects of irresistible law, enclosing every movement and minute, we yet escape, by a paradox, into true free will.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

I maintain that the facts in question are all drawn from the lower strata of the mind, so to speak,—from the sphere of its least evolved functions, from the region of intelligence which man possesses in common with the brutes.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

The oblique and serial arrangement of the muscular fibres of the internal oblique, F, Pl. 29, is seen to be continued upon the spermatic cord by the fibres of the cremaster, E e. These fibres, like those of the lower border of the internal oblique, arise from the middle of Poupart's ligament, and after descending over the cord as far as the testicle in the form of a series of inverted loops, e , again ascend to join the tendon of the internal oblique, by which they become inserted into the crest and pectineal ridge of the os pubis.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

As the defenders of a barricade are always obliged to be sparing of their ammunition, and as the assailants know this, the assailants combine their arrangements with a sort of irritating leisure, expose themselves to fire prematurely, though in appearance more than in reality, and take their ease.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The expenses arising from those institutions which are relative to the mere domestic police of a state, to the support of its legislative, executive, and judicial departments, with their different appendages, and to the encouragement of agriculture and manufactures (which will comprehend almost all the objects of state expenditure), are insignificant in comparison with those which relate to the national defense.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Yes—the way I’d like a hot stove if I was to set on it long enough.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The throne securing, or in law enshrined, With all estates our balanced Realm contains,
— from Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke

Now, all of these three conclusions are lies; and, therefore, we set out in life equipped with a lie in our souls.
— from Sex and Common-Sense by A. Maude (Agnes Maude) Royden

Dim as is this ancient tradition, it is in consistency with the conclusions of modern geology, that at the commencement of the tertiary period northern Asia and a considerable part of India were in all probability covered by the sea but that south of India land extended eastward and westward connecting Malacca with Arabia.
— from Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

The Rugby game was, up to 1895, entirely controlled by the Rugby Football Union, which, by the strictness of its laws, effectually prevented the growth of professionalism, but there had been much dissatisfaction in the provinces with the Union's decision against reimbursing day- working players for ``broken time,'' i.e. for that part of their wages which they lost by playing on working days, and this resulted in the formation (1895) of the Northern Union, which permits remuneration for ``broken time,'' but allows no person who works for his living to play football unless regularly employed at his particular trade.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

You can have flowers all you want," she said once; "I like 'em too well to box 'em up in the house."
— from Christmas: A Story by Zona Gale

They next ascended the Mississippi, and settled on its [“left”] east bank, at the junction of a stream in the present area of Illinois.
— from The Iowa by Foster, Thomas, of Washington, D.C.

"We spoke of it last evening.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Quarantine , the prescribed time, generally 40 days (hence the name), of non-intercourse with the shore for a ship suspected of infection, latterly enforced, and that very strictly, in the cases of infection with yellow fever or plague; since November 1896, the system of quarantine as regards the British Islands has ceased to exist.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall